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Sunspot Facing Earth

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Published: July 16, 2013
By
Staff

Sunspot Facing Earth, Today’s live webcast of the sun has been delayed one hour to 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) due to cloud cover at the observing site.

A huge sunspot 11 times the size of Earth is facing our planet now and you can see live telescope views of the solar behemoth in a skywatching webcast today.

The giant sunspot AR1785 will star in a free webcast by the online skywatching website Slooh Space Camera Tuesday (July 9) at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) and last about 25 minutes.

You can watch the sunspot webcast live on SPACE.com, courtesy of Slooh.

“Slooh Space Camera will take viewers on a wild ride as we take a close-up view of this gigantic sunspot from a world class solar observatory in Arizona,” Slooh officials wrote in an announcement. “AR1785 may pose a threat to Earth if a solar flare ignites while pointed at Earth.”

Slooh officials will use a solar telescope at Prescott Observatory in Arizona to safely observe the sunspot. You can also watch the webcast from Slooh’s website directly here: http://www.slooh.com.

WARNING: Never stare at the sun through binoculars, a telescope or the unaided eye without safety precautions. Serious eye damage or blindness can result. Scientists use telescopes equipped with special filters to safely observe the sun.

So far, sunspot AR1785 and another nearby active region called AR1787 have remained relatively quiet in terms of space weather. On Monday (July 8), space weather forecasters had predicted a 55-percent chance of medium-strength M-class solar flares and a 10-percent chance of powerful X-flares, the strongest type of flares the sun can unleash.

“Despite the fact that both sunspots have unstable magnetic fields laden with energy for strong flares, solar activity remains low,” astronomer Tony Phillips of Spaceweather.com wrote in an update today.

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